 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...: I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The lustre, known to neither sea nor land, But borrowed from the youthful poet's dream ; I would have planted... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 páginas
...being. It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream." The celestial and the earthly are here so commingled, — commingled, but not confounded, — that... | |
 | J. Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 364 páginas
...so powerfully the familiar appearances and common facts of earth, adding, as he himself says, — " The gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream," one is tempted to ask, Is this true, is the light real, or only fantastic? Now in this, I conceive,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 páginas
...Wordsworth's from the " Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Poele Castle : " — " Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw ; and ADD the gleam, The light tJml ntvcr max on sea or land. The consecration, and thc poefs dream! " Well, though these lines help... | |
 | 1873 - 808 páginas
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | Mary Ann Reynolds Page - 1873 - 226 páginas
...except as seen through her eyes, and colored by her imagination and feeling. It is this that adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream."] December 30. A perfectly lovely day. Yesterday it was rather chilly and cloudy, but it is quite clear... | |
 | 1873 - 778 páginas
...of Wordsworth's from the " Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle :" — "Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand To express what then I saw ; and ADD the gleam, 17ie light tftiit never was on sea or Iaiul, The consecration and Vie poet's drtam!" Well, though those... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 páginas
...amongst the fields and hills; but that he steeps them in an ideal light, that he sheds upon them " the gleam — The light that never was on sea or land ; The consecration and the poet's dream;" and that he makes us feel that wonderful connection between nature and the soul of man, which is indeed... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1874 - 96 páginas
...10 I could have fancied that the mighty deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle things. Ah ! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, To express what then I saw, and add the gleam Of lustre known to neither sea or land 1 5 But borrowed from the youthful poet's dream, I would have... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 páginas
...energy of thought upon it — another thing arises, the poetic picture, the work of Art. Ah ! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; aud add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream... | |
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Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile! 
